: By the way, Captain Needa is one of my all-time favorite SW: characters. He could simply have sent an underling to Vader to report the bad news, but he chose to face Vader (and thus certain death) personally to save his crew. Now THATS a hero!

Brave but foolish. He'd have been even more an Imperial hero if he worked out that since there was no Cronau radiation, the guy wasn't in hyperspace, then he'll remember his blind spots. He sends out TIE Fighters and cripples the MF and captures it live before Solo could start his ship back up, like swatting a fly from his back.